My media: Trelise Cooper, fashion designer

Television

I enjoy intelligent drama, things like Six Feet Under. I love the comedy Kath and Kim and I also like documentaries on people's lives, especially if they've overcome adversity to triumph. I always watch Sunday and 20/20, flicking between the two. I really enjoy the news and I watch Paul Holmes.

Magazines

I love looking at Italian Vogue. I get it air freighted. I can't read it, but I find it really inspiring. I also look at the US and English Vogues, Elles, and Harper's Bazaar, In Style, Nylon and I like Japanese fashion magazines.

They're more abstract in their fashion. I love it.

Radio

I tend to listen to radio that I can sing along to and have a laugh, and I think 91FM does that for me. I also switch to The Edge and 91.8. I like it if it's humorous, but if it's too Jerry Springer I turn it off.

I really love when I'm driving home listening to Stables (drivetime presenter, 91FM).

He's so funny I roar with laughter in the car. If I'm stressed from the day, he's doing something outrageous and he takes me to another place.

Newspapers

I read the Herald every morning, and Sunday Star-Times on a Sunday. When I'm overseas I get newspapers delivered to my hotel. I love reading the arts and fashion sections as much as the business section.

Books

I guess my interest in books is a bit like music. It's very broad and eclectic. I like biographies and autobiographies, and contemporary fiction. I don't mean bodice rippers, but something more intelligent.

I've read Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner, and am reading the second one. It's a deeper version of Bridget Jones's Diary. I also like books about different ways of thinking.

For many years I've read books like Louise Hay's You Can Heal Yourself, and Creative Visualisation is an old stand-by. Conversations With God is another one. I love books by Marianne Williamson, who wrote Return to Love. Gary Zukav wrote Soul Stories and The Seat of the Soul.

At the moment, I'm reading a book by Oprah Winfrey's Dr Phil; it's about seven steps to weight loss. There's no dieting involved, it's about your emotional response to food. I find these sorts of books expand my mind.

It's interesting to be exposed to other ways of thinking.

Internet

I'm not very good on the internet. I don't use a computer in my day-to-day work. I like things you can hold and carry around with you.

Inspiration

What inspired me greatly, especially my last collection, is a book I was given on Love and Death, the pre-Raphaelite paintings exhibition.

I also get a lot of reference books from the library on all sorts of things, such as old jewellery, sailing ships, old China, Persia, books on Chinese and Japanese design. I look at them rather than read them.

At the moment I've got a book on Spain and matadors.

And a staff member who was leaving gave me a history of fashion, The Collection of the Kyoto Costume Institute of Fashion.

I was also very inspired by going to the premieres in LA of The Lord of the Rings and The Last Samurai.

The attention to detail in both was inspiring. I notice that sort of thing.